Two-faced: How not to find God’s will

Nobody likes a two-faced person.  Least of all God.

And that’s what he addresses here when some elders of Israel came to find out if God had something to say to them.  He told Ezekiel,

Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces.

Should I let them inquire of me at all?  (Ezekiel 14:3)

He was saying, “Here these men are, claiming to want to know my will, but at the same time, they are worshiping idols.  I won’t have it.”

And so he went on to say,

Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:  Repent!  Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!

When any Israelite or any alien living in Israel separates himself from me and sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face and then goes to a prophet to inquire of me, I the Lord will answer him myself.

I will set my face against that man and make him an example and a byword.  I will cut him off from my people.  Then you will know that I am the Lord.  (Ezekiel 14:6-8)

How about you?  Do you on one hand, pray to God asking his will, all the while seeking the things of this world and making them your gods?

Or do you sometimes look at your horoscope or tarot cards, trying to seek what will happen in the future through them?

We cannot be two-faced when we seek God.  Either we do so wholeheartedly, or we don’t do it at all.

He will accept nothing less.